Bug#534715: gnome-control-center: enabling "show position of pointer" breaks Xterm "Secure Keyboard"
Riad Wahby
kwantam at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 15:54:15 UTC 2009
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.22.2.1-2+b1
Severity: normal
Enabling "Show position of pointer when Control key is pressed" in
gnome-mouse-properties causes gnome-settings-daemon to grab and hold the
keyboard. This prevents the user from activating other keyboard-
grabbing software, e.g., XTerm's "Secure Keyboard" option. While this
doesn't necessarily need to change (it may not be reasonable to
implement this in another way), the side effects of this behavior should
be documented (and perhaps warn the user when the option is selected?).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii capplets-data 1:2.22.2.1-2 configuration applets for GNOME 2
ii desktop-file-util 0.15-1 Utilities for .desktop files
ii gnome-desktop-dat 2.22.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.24.0-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-menus 2.24.2-2 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii gnome-settings-da 2.22.2.1-2 GNOME settings daemon
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-9 2.24.5-4+b1 Client library for evolution addre
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.24.0-7 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop- 2.22.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-menu2 2.24.2-2 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii libgnome-window-s 1:2.22.2.1-2+b1 Utility library for getting window
ii libgnome2-0 2.24.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomekbd2 2.22.0-2 GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii libgnomekbdui2 2.22.0-2 User interface library for libgnom
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.0-3 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgstreamer-plug 0.10.22-4 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10- 0.10.23-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libmetacity-priva 1:2.24.0-2 library of lightweight GTK2 based
ii libnautilus-exten 2.20.0-7 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2- 2.20.3-5 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libslab0 0.9.8.svn.20070430-1.1 beautification app library file
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notifi 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 2:1.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxklavier12 3.5-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii evolution-data-server 2.24.5-4+b1 evolution database backend server
pn gnome-session <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-user-guide 2.24.2-2 GNOME user's guide
Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
pn esound-clients <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-screensaver 2.22.2-2 GNOME screen saver and locker
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstreamer 0.10.22-4 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-esd [gstreamer0 0.10.14-2 GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [g 0.10.14-2 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio [gst 0.10.14-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+5 X server utilities
ii xscreensaver 5.05-3 Automatic screensaver for X
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